KATIE COURIC

Katie Couric will become the first woman ever to host “Jeopardy!”

Friday evening marks the final posthumous “Jeopardy!” episode for beloved host Alex Trebek. Trebek died on Nov. 8 after being diagnosed and treated for pancreatic cancer. A permanent “Jeopardy!” successor hasn’t been named. Longtime “Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings will be the first of a planned series of guest hosts on episodes that begin appearing next week. As difficult as it...

Norah O’Donnell will become anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News” and Gayle King is getting two new morning show co-hosts as CBS News seeks to boost the programs’ ratings and put a tumultuous, scandal-scarred period behind it.

The Prince George’s County government, organizations and businesses are banding together to help people who need assistance during the federal shutdown. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Craig Scott remembers April 20, 1999 clearly. He was a sophomore at Columbine at the time, and that morning started like any other spring day. His older sister, Rachel, who was a senior, dropped him off at the entrance to the school so he wouldn’t be late for class. That was the last time he would see her alive.

Katie Couric is launching a new series in Washington that tackles divisive issues. She sat down with Barbara Harrison to talk about it.

Katie Couric just took Jimmy Kimmel for his first colonoscopy. The late-night host shared the experience on Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” Kimmel turned 50 in November, which is the recommended age for adults to start getting screenings. So when Couric asked Kimmel if she could accompany him for his first, he couldn’t refuse.

Veteran TV journalist Katie Couric says she has faced sexist attitudes in her career, such as demeaning descriptions and “gross comments.” Couric spoke Thursday at consumer products maker Procter & Gamble’s Cincinnati headquarters in a forum on the state of women in the workplace. The forum comes amid a wave of sexual misconduct claims against prominent figures in entertainment, politics...

NBC is bringing back Katie Couric to co-host the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics next month.

Katie Couric tells Jimmy Fallon about the Korean snail mask she wants to try while in Pyeongchang for the Winter Olympics and plays an Olympics-themed version of Two Truths and a Lie.

Katie Couric, who was Matt Lauer’s “Today” co-host for several years, broke her silence Saturday on sexual misconduct allegations against him. Couric told People magazine: “I had no idea this was going on during my tenure or after I left.” She departed NBC in 2006 to anchor the “CBS Evening News” and has been criticized for her silence in the...

Broadcasting legends Maureen Bunyan and Donnie Simpson remember Jim Vance.

CBS’ effort to brand itself as the home of hard-edged newscasts has been a success in the morning, not so much in the evening — and “CBS Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley paid the price for it with his job....
The network announced Wednesday that Pelley will return full-time to “60 Minutes,” the flagship newsmagazine where he divided his time in...

Matt Lauer celebrated 20 years of waking up at the crack of dawn as co-anchor of ‘Today.’

Longtime “Today” show viewers are being treated to a familiar sight this week as Katie Couric returns to the co-anchor chair for the first time in more than a decade. Couric rejoined Matt Lauer on Monday to begin a weeklong stint on the NBC morning program. She told Lauer, “It just feels like I never left.” She has made cameo...

Some familiar faces will be back in Studio 1A early next year to help host the “Today” show with Savannah Guthrie on maternity leave, the show reports. Former anchors Katie Couric and Meredith Viera are each going to spend a week back in the anchor chair as Guthrie spends time with newborn Charles. Couric, who hosted from 1991 to 2006,...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wasn’t afraid to be blunt when asked about the athletes taking a knee or raising a fist during the ongoing national anthem protests.

The ’80s crooner and former ’90s MTV VJ tied the knot in Aspen before Christmas.